16 US soldiers flown to Kuwait hospital after Iran strike – Middle East Monitor
▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200120-16-us-soldiers-flown-to-kuwait-hospital-after-iran-strik
(20/01/2020)
A leading Arabic-language newspaper in Kuwait reported yesterday that 16 US servicemen were transferred to a US military hospital in Kuwait following Iran’s retaliatory missile attack against the Ain Al-Assad Air Base in Iraq earlier this month. Some of the casualties were suffering from severe burns and others had shrapnel wounds. The Iranian air strikes targeted two sites in response to the US assassination of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on 3 January.
Al-Qabas quoted informed sources saying that the troops had been flown into a hospital at Camp Arjifan in Ahmed Al-Jaber Air Base under tight security. The source added that the injured soldiers have undergone surgery and are being kept in the ICU at the hospital.
Pentagon now says 34 troops suffered brain injuries in Iran missile strike | The Times of Israel
▻https://www.timesofisrael.com/pentagon-says-34-troops-suffered-brain-injuries-in-iran-missile-strik
Casualty total at odds with Trump’s claim following attack on bases in Iraq that no US personnel were harmed; army previously said 11 service members suffered concussions
The truth about US casualties in the Iran attack is slowly coming out – Middle East Monitor
▻https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200124-the-truth-about-us-casualties-in-the-iran-attack-is-slow
We may never know the full extent of US casualties from Iran’s retaliatory missile attack on 8 January against two Iraqi air bases hosting US troops but for now at least, more information is gradually starting to surface, contradicting statements by President Donald Trump that “No Americans were harmed in last night’s attack by the Iranian regime. We suffered no casualties.” It is reasonable to be sceptical of attempts to downplay and disregard any serious casualties or fatalities from the attacks, dubbed “Operation Martyr Soleimani” after the assassinated Iranian General, Qassem Soleimani, which prompted Iran’s “proportionate” response.